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Speaker 1: We head out to the KWA Comma Spirit Health Hotline

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Speaker 1: to bring on Voice of the Rockies, Jack Corgan Jack

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Speaker 1: you know, with Ryan Edwards, Shelby Harris, and Nate Jackson,

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Speaker 1: my friend. Always great to hear you, Great to hear

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Speaker 1: you on the radio today, especially how are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm good, Ryan Banks. Yeah, it was fun. Justin and I,

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Speaker 2: Jesse Thomas and I getting back to covering the ball club.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a little different than that first preseason

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Speaker 2: game for Nate and Shelby. You know, I know it

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Speaker 2: doesn't count, but it's so a little different feel in

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Speaker 2: baseball than it is in football.

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Speaker 1: A little bit, a little bit. I was chuckling listening

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Speaker 1: to you guys do the Hello Kiddy night read there

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Speaker 1: coming up here during the Rocky season. Just again, everybody

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Speaker 1: title to enjoy what they enjoy. But that was a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. Hey, listen, man, very excited about this

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Speaker 1: up commit I'm excited every year about the Rocky season.

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Speaker 1: So let's get into it. For your perspective on spring training,

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Speaker 1: Warren Shaeffer is first opportunity as full time manager. What

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Speaker 1: have you noticed, I guess in some of the practices

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Speaker 1: and in the ramp up to this thing. What do

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Speaker 1: you think he'll be able to do in his first

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Speaker 1: full season here.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's no question he's big into communication with the

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Speaker 2: players and being very proactive with them. There has been

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Speaker 2: a real energy vibe, if you will, through practices. You know,

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Speaker 2: he's he's looking at the big picture of you know,

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Speaker 2: the one hundred and sixty two games and dealing with

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Speaker 2: altitude and all of that. And you know, baseball for

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Speaker 2: so long it was you get up at six thirty

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Speaker 2: seven o'clock and they're on the field at eight thirty

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Speaker 2: nine o'clock to get themselves ready, and you do that

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Speaker 2: throughout the whole spring, and then all of a sudden

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Speaker 2: you play three quarters of your games at night, and

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Speaker 2: you know, just little things like that that don't always

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Speaker 2: make a lot of sense, I really believe, and most

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Speaker 2: players appreciate the fact of a hands on approach by

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Speaker 2: the coaching staff, especially with a young roster. I think

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Speaker 2: we've already seen in the first week to ten days

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Speaker 2: a lot more instruction going on during the drills they've

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Speaker 2: been doing since they were kids. But you can never

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Speaker 2: stop learning in anything, and that includes pro sports.

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Speaker 1: Jack, can you talk a little bit about that young roster.

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Speaker 1: You just mentioned in some of the players that we

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Speaker 1: want to keep our eye on coming into this season.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think certainly, you know, guys that they've already

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Speaker 2: had a little taste of, you know, people like Jordan

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Speaker 2: Beck and Kyle Carros and others to build around a

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Speaker 2: Hunter Goodman and Ezekiel Tovar and players like that. Everybody's

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Speaker 2: going to be anxious to see Charlie Condon. He got

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Speaker 2: a little bit of time in their number one pick

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Speaker 2: two years ago, and I mean, he's a guy I'm

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Speaker 2: sure we're going to see at some point at the

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Speaker 2: big league level this season. Just the continued development really

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Speaker 2: of some of those young relievers like Halverson and Vodnik

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Speaker 2: and who I thought Wan Mahea looked. You know, granted

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Speaker 2: it's the first game of the spring, but Maheah was

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Speaker 2: overpowering today. And you're talking about a twenty five year

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Speaker 2: old who's starting to understand how to pitch, not just

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Speaker 2: you know, on his raw talent. And I think those

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Speaker 2: are some of the people we're going to see and

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Speaker 2: hopefully watch developed during not just spring training, but throughout

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Speaker 2: the year.

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Speaker 3: Hey Jack Shelby here up here, what do you expect

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Speaker 3: the Rockies to do better this year technically than they

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Speaker 3: did last year, because obviously last year didn't nothing went right.

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Speaker 3: So this year, fresh year, new season, you know, positive thinking,

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Speaker 3: what is something you know that this team will do

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Speaker 3: better than they did last year.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, Shelby, and I got to tell you,

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Speaker 2: as born and raised Cleveland there and still a die

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Speaker 2: hard Browns fan, thank you for a great year in

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Speaker 2: a tough season. Again for the Browns. To a certain degree,

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Speaker 2: it's always fun to watch veterans like you make an

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Speaker 2: impact on a team. And I think that's one of

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Speaker 2: the things that the Rockies new front office understood that

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Speaker 2: last year. It's great to have young players with wonderful potential,

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Speaker 2: but you still need some veterans around them who have

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Speaker 2: been through through the grind, if you will, and especially

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Speaker 2: on the pitching side, So having Michael Lorenzen and Jose

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Speaker 2: Kingtana and Tomo Yuki Sugano, guys who have got a

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Speaker 2: track record there to provide some guidance and leadership beyond

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Speaker 2: just Kyle Freeland. I think Shelby, that's how they start

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Speaker 2: to make a difference.

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Speaker 1: And then it feels like that actually that's the last

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Speaker 1: thing I had for you, is I want to talk

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Speaker 1: a little about the rotation. Certainly spent a lot of

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Speaker 1: their their off season dollars there. Seemed like that made

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Speaker 1: a lot of sense. Is that some of the earmarks

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Speaker 1: of Paul de Podessa and we kind of wanted to

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Speaker 1: see what kind of fingerprints he put on this thing

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Speaker 1: from the first jump, and he got brought in some

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Speaker 1: guys that can eat some innings and throw some strikes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you really hit on the key points there, Ryan,

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Speaker 2: is that you know so often last few of the

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Speaker 2: Rockies were in a hole, and when you have a

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Speaker 2: young lineup and you know, the Rockies gave up more

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Speaker 2: first inning runs than any team in baseball last year.

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Speaker 2: And if you're already looking up, even at a home

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Speaker 2: game before you've hadn't a bat, that really becomes a challenge.

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Speaker 2: And while Lorenzo and Sugano and Kitana are not likely

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Speaker 2: saw young candidates there guys would track records, Guys who

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Speaker 2: do trow strikes and eat up innings and keep you

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Speaker 2: in games. I think it not only keeps the Rockies

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Speaker 2: in ball games, but gives them a chance where that

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Speaker 2: younger bullpen can make a difference because there are some

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Speaker 2: electric arms in that bullpen, so if you have a

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Speaker 2: chance in the later innings, that's how the record improves, no.

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Speaker 1: Doubt about it. Jack. Like I said, great to hear

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Speaker 1: you back on the radio. I, along with a lot

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Speaker 1: of Rockies fans, are very excited anticipating this upcoming season

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Speaker 1: and anticipate a lot of games with you on the call.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate the time man, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: As always, enjoy the visits. Thanks.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate Jack.

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Speaker 1: Voice of the Rockies, Jack Corgan